American Merchant Ships and Sailors

Willis J. Abbot

Capitolo 31

as him, perhaps--he/she offered goodbye to a house of comfort and refinement and
made his/her berth in a smoky castle of bow, fetid to learn the sailor you/he/she is calling.
The children of the great dealers of consignment almost invariably did some
trips--oftenest as supercargoes, perhaps but not infrequently as commune
sailors. In duration special quarters, to half road among the box and the
castle of bow, was provided for these apprentices known as that they were the
"the cousins of ship." They did the job of the sailors in front of the tree, but
officers of brevet it was considered. There was to that less duration to hock
the activities and it wakes up again the ambitions of youth what time, and the sea
offered the most promising career. Besides, the methods of commerce involved,
and the relationships of the captain or the other officers to the owners, were
as to spur ambition and profit of promise. The dealer was then
greatly dependent on his/her captain that has to judge markets, purchase and predicament,
and it moulds his/her course without direction from house. Then the custom rose of
giving the captain--and sometimes the other officers--an opportunity to bring
good of them really in the ship, or to divide the adventure of the owner. In the
whaling and business of fishing that we will see that an almost pure communism
prevailed. These conditions attracted to the men to shout maritime of a
resourceful and ambitious nature--men to whom the to-day of conditions of
wage and mere servitude, crossed of routing you fix, and continuous dependence on the they cabled
or it telegraphed orders of the owner they would be intolerable. Profits were
heavy, and the men that earned them opportunity were allowed to divide
them. Ships were multiplying fast, and any really vivacious and vigilant sailor
stay of need from very in the castle of bow. They often became complete captains
and joint-owners to the age of twenty-one, or also first, for boys it went
to sea to centuries when the lads of equally prosperous families in these
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